You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The inner life has its soft and gentle beauty; an abstract formlessness as well as a subtle charm. I often consider myself… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“the battered woman--for she wore a skirt--with her right hand exposed, her left clutching at her side, stood singing of love--love which… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Punctuality is one of the minor virtues which we do not acquire until later in life.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The possibilities of pleasure seemed that morning so enormous and so various that to have only a moth's part in life, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But if sleep it was, of what nature, we can scarcely refrain from asking, are such sleeps as these? Are they remedial… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Are we not all prisoners? She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I lie back. It seems as if the whole world were flowing and curving — on the earth the trees, in the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It cannot be denied that the most successful practitioners of the art of life, often unknown people by the way, somehow contrive… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Fear no more," said Clarissa. Fear no more the heat o' the sun; for the shock of Lady Bruton asking Richard to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“…in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Leonard Woolf: If I didn't know you better I'd call this ingratitude. Virginia Woolf: I am ungrateful? You call ME ungrateful? My… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“To upset everything every 3 or 4 years is my notion of a happy life.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semitransparent envelope surrounding us from the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
